Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Clippinger, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Kathleen Jernquist, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Steven Nozaki, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Fredrick A. Nitterright, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

knowledge [13]. A coherent curriculum can also support the teambuilding,collaboration, and peer response practices crucial to undergraduates’ professional development.Developing a coherent writing program, however, demands extensive time, labor, and resources,and among the most persistent challenges is addressing sentence-level expression.While undergraduates in their third year can identify points at which their content and rhetoricalknowledge “begin to merge” [14], addressing the subtleties of sentence-level expression requiresfaculty and mentors with disciplinary and rhetorical expertise. Teaching style, syntax, anddiction through typical English handbooks cannot effectively address nuances of expressionexpected by professional readers; however

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

)approach dominates research but they argue (echoing Newman [1]) that the “theinterconnection among the forces influencing student change highlight the need to considertheoretical conceptions from multiple disciplines in designing studies of college impact” (p.630).Reporting their findings (which applied to the US) they write, One of the most striking features of the full corpus of the post-1990 research we reviewed is the broad scope of the dimensions of student lives that change with exposure to college. Even after adjusting for other forces, and even if the exposure lasts for only a year or two, college changes students to a degree unattributable to normal maturation or other influences outside the academy

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neelam Prabhu Gaunkar, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

askedto reflect about what they know. Then, the students are asked to explain how they could use theidea to explain something of their interest or apply the knowledge to a specific task. When thestudents write and attempt to connect their knowledge/learning to their own interests, their storiesand experiences had far greater value than the instructor’s initial intent. Finally, with the studentsat the center and possessing an awareness of the differences in an instructor’s instruction andstudent’s retention, classes can be designed to make learning an enjoyable experience for bothstudents and instructors.IntroductionIn the present-day classrooms, students have access to multiple sources of information such as webcontent, videos, instructional

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Blake P.E., Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

the problem. This focus is appropriate for the specific material ofthe course, but it misses how and why one gets to the point where the course material is needed.It also misses more general aspects of engineering and technology. Courses with project workmove beyond this to some degree, but are unlikely to succeed in covering some facets oftechnological and engineering literacy (TEL).Many approaches have been documented for teaching technological and engineering literacy [4,5]. A search for technological and engineering literacy in the ASEE PEER database in February,2019, resulted in a list of 60 papers from technical sessions of the Technological and EngineeringLiteracy/Philosophy of Engineering (TELPhE) Division alone; 163 are listed for